Another Canadian Comics Guy With a Blog...

...and yes, Arune Singh (whom I spoke of last posting) is an ex-pat from Toronto down in the US Southwest at present.

Anyway, today's shout-out goes to another example of Good Comics People, Mark Shainblum, out of Montréal. His regular website's here, if you want a look-see.

Mark, in concert with assorted others, particularly Gabriel Morissette, gave us Northguard and Angloman, two polar opposites in approach to Canadian super-heroes if I've ever seen such in my life, ranging from hard realism to political satire. He's currently scripting the webcomic Canadiana, the New Spirit of Canada among other jobs he's doing, which is leaning more to the "Northguard" school than not. For the right audience, that's definitely a good thing in my POV.

Radio Hosts I Like Shanghai'ed to...Shanghai

Some of you living in Ottawa may have already heard or read the news:

Anthony Germain, host of Ottawa Morning on CBC Radio One these last couple of years, has been transferred to Shanghai to be CBC's news bureau chief there.

The article on Tod Maffin's blog will go into some additional detail. Anyway, I know he's off to bigger and better things on CBC's behalf, and likely facing challenges in newsgathering and reporting that will likely not be found elsewhere on the planet. But I've gotten used to listening to him in the mornings. I'm going to miss having that experience.

Best of luck to you, Mr. Germain, if you're reading this...and good hunting. May your work benefit the peoples of China and Canada alike.

Some Last Thoughts Before the Vote

I'm pretty much decided on who I'm voting for, and who I'm voting against tomorrow.

I'm not going to say who or why here. I may explain some time after the fact, but not tonight. Not for a while, anyway.

I don't know how most of the rest of the country is going to decide the course of our future together as a nation, or whether they'll decide that such a country as we now have shouldn't have a future. It's happened before, elsewhere. It'll happen again. Somewhere.

Someone put a name to at least one of my fears recently, and I only learned of it tonight. You may have heard of Spider Robinson, novelist, dreamer and musician formerly of the American Union, and now a resident of British Columbia and one of many who've chosen to adopt Canada as their Home.

I don't know that I agree with all of the details of his essay, but since he named my fear, I feel it only right to link to the essay and let you judge for yourselves.

Take a look.

Take a look around you now.

Time stands still.

It awaits our choice.

Whatever we choose tomorrow, let it not be the death of kindness to each other.

Please.